The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-09-07
TALMAGES SERMON.
'woman's Observation-Disclosures
Suggested BY Its Study.
he Home the Realm wherein She
Reigns-MuscuIine Women and
Effeminate Men Discussed I'm
Their Domestic Relations.

/ Rev T. De Witt Talmage took for the
! ubject of his sixth sermon at seThe Hamp-
ons" "Woman's Opportunity" his text
| ,eing:
/ so God created man in his own image, In the
| mage OF God created he him; male and female
| reated he them.--Genesis l., "a.
! In other words, God, who can make no
| mistake, made man and woman for spe-
\ .ific work, and to move in particular
| ipheres-man 10 be regnant in his realm,
woman to be dominant in hers. The bound
airy line between Italy and Switzerland,
4 between England and Scotland, is not
more thoroughly marked than this dis.
! ,inction between the empire masculine and
I :he empire feminine. So entirely dissim-
I liar are the fields to which God called them
1 that you can no more compare them than
you can oxygen and hydrogen, water and
grass, trees and stars. All this talk about
tho superiority of one sex to the other sex
is an everlasting waste of ink and speech.
A jeweler may have scale so delicate
that he can weigh the dust of diamonds,
! but where are the scales so delicate that you
can weigh them in affection against affec-
toin, sentiment against sentiment, thought
against thought, soul against soul, mans
world against a woman's world? You
come out with your stereotyped remark,
the man is superior to woman in intellect;
and then / open on my desk the swarthy,
iron-typed, thunder-bolted writings of
Harriet Martineau, and Elizabeth Brown
ing, and George Eliot. You come on
with your stereotyped remark about
woman's superiority to man in the item of
affection, but j ask you where was there
more capacity to love than in John, the
disciple, and Robert McCheyne, the
Scotchman, and John Summerfield, the
Methodist, and Henry Martin, the mis-
sionary. The hearts of those men We're so
large, that after you had rolled
into them two hemspheres, there
was room still left to marshal
the hosts of Heaven and set up the throne
of the eternal Jehovah. ] deny to man
the throne intellectual. | deny to woman
the throne affectional. No human phrase
oIogy will ever define the spheres, while
there is an intuition by which we know
when man is in his realm, and when
woman is in her realm, and when either OF
them is out of it. No bungling legislature
ought to attempt to make definition or
to say: This is the line and that is the
line"
My theory is that IL woman wants to
vote she ought to vote, and that il man
ought to be allowed to embroider and keep
house. There are masculine women and
effeminate men. My theory is that you
have no right to interfere with any ones
doing any thing that is righteous. AL
bany and Washington might as well de-
cree by legislation how high brown
thrasher should fly, or how deep trout
should swim, as to try to seek out the
height or the depth of woman's
duty. The question of capacity
win settle finally the whole ques
ton, the whole subject. When a
woman is prepared to preach, she will
preach, and neither conference nor presby-
terry can hinder her. a en- woman is
prepared to move y efghest commercial
spheres she will have great influence on
the exchange, and no boards of trade can
hinder her. | want woman to understand
that heart and brain can overly any bar
rier that politicians may set up, and thu
nothing can keep her back or keep
down but the question of incapacitv
There are women, / know, &c
srable nature, who wander
the country-having
own, or forsaking t..
ing about their rio
well that the
to vote y
seems
the.